Army
Firings
Well, top of the news as I write this Pete Hegseth has asked the Army Chief of Staff, GEN Randy George, to step down. Chief Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said in a statement that George “will be retiring from his position as the 41st Chief of Staff of the Army effective immediately. The Department of […]
Chips the Hero
Saw an interesting article on Chips, aka Chips the War Dog, aka WWII’s most decorated dog. On the morning of July 10, 1943, Pvt. John P. Rowell and his sentry dog, Chips, hit the beach during Operation Husky. When a hidden machine gun nest opened fire, pinning down the platoon, Chips tore free from Rowell […]
82nd Airborne Division is in the Middle East
Thousands of US Army paratroopers arrive in Middle East as buildup intensifies By Idrees Ali and Phil Stewart, Reuters Thousands of soldiers from the U.S. Army’s elite 82nd Airborne Division have started arriving in the Middle East, two U.S. officials told Reuters on Monday, as President Donald Trump weighs his next steps in the war […]
Valor Friday
Lars sends us this really cool story about brotherhood within the notoriously bad Nazi prisoner of war camps. The conditions were spartan to say the least for the Western Allies contained within the German stalags. Despite overcrowding (especially late in the war), a lack of medical supplies, and dwindling food, Red Cross packages were still […]
Old Dominion cadets receive medals
I’m really enjoying the new Department of Defense War policy of just giving people the medals they deserve without years of delay. It’s not even been two weeks since that radical Islamic terrorist shot up a classroom full of ROTC cadets at Old Dominion University. The cadets (unarmed as it was a “gun free zone”) […]
A gun topic or two
The ATF is still trying to say that arm braces on things like rifle caliber pistols makes them short barreled rifles. Guess they can also say why a rifle which reduces muzzle velocity and accuracy makes the rifle more dangerous? Ah, wait, it’s more concealable… which actually accomplishes what? IF someone is bent on […]
Artillery Get Some
Happy Pi Day to all! Seems American artillery just keeps getting better and better. Most recently? Talk about an unusual kill… 3rd Battalion, 27th Field Artillery, 18th Field Artillery Brigade – sank a submarine. U.S. forces have struck with Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) short-range ballistic missiles. ATACMS cannot hit moving targets, so the […]
New Grenades
The Army has officially adopted the M111 (and it’s practice counterpart the M112). May not sound terribly significant, but they are the first lethal hand grenades adopted since 1968. As many know, our standard M67 grenade works pretty well as a fragmentation grenade. Pull the pin, four-ish seconds later it goes ‘splodey, and sends out […]
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